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Nice Review Of My Latest Book On Student Motivation
Quote Of The Day: Albert Einstein On “Flow”
Harvard Business Review Publishes Nice Guide To Positive Classroom Management
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Resources On Saving “Dying” Languages

Here are new additions to The Best Resources For International Mother Language Day:

To Resurrect A Vanishing Language, Try YouTube and Indiegogo is from NPR.

This language is based only on whistles is from The Week.

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Nice Review Of My Latest Book On Student Motivation

Wendi Pillars, an ELL teacher for whom I have a lot of respect (you can see the many times I’ve written about her work) was kind enough to write a very positive review of my latest book on student motivation, Building A Community Of Self-Motivated Learners.

Here’s how she ends it:

If you’re looking for resources and ideas that are backed up by research, and run the gamut from teaching students about goal-setting, physically active learners, and flow, to motivating readers and writers, this book is for you. How about classroom management, you ask? Absolutely. One of my favorite chapters is that of learning transfer. I realized I’ve never explicitly taught that before, nor did I know about Backward Reaching Transfer vs. Forward Thinking Transfer. Let me just say, I can’t wait to teach my students to “Be Like James Bond!” (yep, you’ll have to read it to learn about it!)

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Quote Of The Day: Albert Einstein On “Flow”

I have written a lot about the concept of “flow” and try to apply it in my classroom. You can see an excerpt from my book chapter about it, Help Your Students Get Into the Learning Flow, as well as check out The Best Resources For Learning About "Flow.”

I recently read a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to his then eleven-year-old son where, though he doesn’t use the word “flow,” he definitely understands its importance.

Here’s an excerpt:

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Harvard Business Review Publishes Nice Guide To Positive Classroom Management

Substitute the word “students” for “employees” and “teachers” for “bosses” and the Harvard Business Review article titled Why Compassion Is a Better Managerial Tactic than Toughness offers a pretty decent guide to positive classroom management.

Here’s an excerpt: